Comments on: Packing your service now

By: trinnit

trinnit — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 23:56:42 +0000

Could “Service Pack” whatever be seperate from the Admin Tools Pack? Seems to be saying the OS needs to be at a certain level (installed service pack) before you can install the Admin Tools pack which is a seperate thing.

By: fweebles

fweebles — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 20:05:53 +0000

At a guess:

The error message is one of those “insert parameters here” ones, of the form:

(with the same Service Pack as that of $sofware).

It just so happens that $software happens to contain the phrase “Service Pack 1”, which makes everything all the more confusing.

I’d venture a guess that it would apply equally well if the parenthetical read “with the same Service Pack as that of Windows Server 2003 Admin Tools Pack).

That is, you have to match the release number/SP of the admin tools to the release number/SP of the version of windows you’re running (in this case, SP 1).

That’s all I’ve gotten out of it so far.

By: Rich

Rich — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:56:07 +0000

Oh, it’s even better — the whole thing means I’m going to have to install XP! But still that last bit escapes me.

By: substitute

substitute — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 19:34:14 +0000

It means you’re going to have to reinstall everything again.